Kai Jones, Freeskier Who Went Pro at 12, Details Comeback from 'Life-Defining' Injury in New Documentary (Exclusive)

At the age of 18, Kai Jones already knows what it means to get up, fall and return again.

The freeskier, a professional since he was 12 years old, details his ascent to a glory and a dramatic ski accident that changed his life in the new documentary film Teton Gravity Research By decaying into a place.

“I grew up in the Teton Valley all my life, a soft skiing, so of course, he was a huge part of my life,” Jones tells people about what attracted him to sports. “I grew up on a ski team riding with my friends, and every chance I got watched I watched skiing videos and watched through a window at school waiting for the snow.”

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Growing up with his father, Todd Jones and Uncle Steve Jones, co-founders of Teton Gravity Research-Ekkostamet Sports Media and Clothing-they had “unique insight into the industry”.

“I grew up around some of the best skiers in the world and I always took so much inspiration from these guys and I grew up watching them in TGR movies,” he says. “I was fascinated by a pretty youth and I knew that it was what I wanted to do.”

It didn’t take long to activate his childhood dream. At 11, Jones recorded his first segment for TGR, which he calls “at the beginning of everything.”

“We put it on YouTube and got 5 million views and just jumped abruptly,” he says. “That changed all. The sponsors started calling, I recorded more videos, and that was a catalyst for me at the age of 12. ”

The proportion of Pro demanded that I miss a lot of school – “I started doing an internet school in seventh grade,” he says – and pushing myself at a young age, which Jones says is worth it. “It needs to be distinguished. I started skiing not only for a 12-year-old, but also good for a professional skier.”

Kai Jones Skiing.

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Jones rode the high years for several years, which included and sponsored by Red Bull, nominated for Rider of the year for three years in a row and skiing the “smallest line” in his career, but all this came to the demolition of stopping on March 7, 2023.

“I went to ski the line that I had skied before, and in fact I was less nervous than I normally remember,” he tells people. “Just as I hit this cliff on landing, they both broke Tibia Tubercles and I torn both of my meniscus.”

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The then 16-year-old, who recorded a video with his father and two other crew members, was transferred to a nearby hospital where he started an emergency surgery. “I was in the hospital for 10 days and I was critically anemic,” Jones divides. “Later I had to go back to another surgery and at this point I was mentally destroyed. I am a skier, that’s my identity. That’s all to me.”

Kai Jones Skiing.

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Ultimately, after weeks of immobility, Jones had the decision to make.

“I knew I could lie there and feel bad about myself and no one gets angry with me for that, or I could move on and try to become a better person and get stronger than this,” he says. “This will show what my life will look like. It’s a life -long determination.”

Jones began physical therapy twice a day in bed and began to do school jobs again.

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“I started restoring confidence,” he says. “Skiing was always in the back of my head. I did everything I could to walk hard enough.”

Almost a year later, Jones returned to the mountain.

“I was hard to ski, and that was a shock to me,” he says to the people. “I didn’t realize how much work I still need to invest.”

During the 2023-2024 ski season, Jones returned to where he used to be, and exactly one year after the accident, he had what he said was “one of the most striking lines of my ski career.”

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With the help of his father, who documented all this, Jones set Red Bull to make the movie what he prevailed.

“I went through something wild and traumatic and I knew that when I was down I would always come back, especially if you have a voice.

After the outflow of the movie in December, Jones set up his views on the next adventure.

“I gained so much gratitude for life after I went through all that and lost what I loved and to have it again,” he says. “I’m pretty neglected to just travel, ski, movie and yes, we’ll see where I’m taking me.”

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